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PRESS   OF   WILLIAM   FAXON. 
1855. 


Amherst  College,  185 

Agreeably  to  the  following  laws 

is  admitted  a  member  of  this  College. 

President. 


LAWS. 


CHAPTER  L 

GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 

I.  The  General  Government  and  direction  of  Amherst 
College  is  vested  in  its  Corporation. 

II.  A  Prudential  Committee,  elected  by  the  Corporation, 
has  the  power  committed  to  it,  generally  or  from  time  to  time, 
by  that  body. 

III.  The  Immediate  Government  is  vested  in  the  Presi- 
dent, Professors  and  Tutors,  who  shall  be  styled  the  Faculty 
of  Amherst  College. 


CHAPTER  II. 

THE  FACULTY  OF  THE  COLLEGE. 

I.  It  is  the  primary  duty  of  the  Faculty  of  the  College  to 
educate  its  students.  To  this  end,  besides  attending  reci- 
tations, giving  lectures,  &c,  they  will  take  the  general  state 
of  the  College  into  frequent  consideration — make  such  rules 
and  regulations,  not  conflicting  with  the  College  Laws,  as  may 
be  necessary  t)  the  performance  of  their  duties — take  cogni- 
zance of  offences  committed  by  the  students,  and  inflict  ap- 
propriate penalties,  earnestly  seeking  the  promotion  of  virtue, 
piety,  good  manners  and  good    learning  in    the  institution. 


893,859 


They  will  also,  from  time  to  time,  propose  to  the  Corporation^ 
any  laws  and  measures,  by  which,  in  their  judgment  the  system 
of  instruction  and  discipline  may  be  improved. 

II.  The  President  has  authority  to  convene  the  Faculty  for 
business  or  advice,  whenever  he  may  think  it  expedient,  and 
all  matters  which  by  law  are  referred  to  them  shall  be  deter- 
mined by  a  major  vote  of  the  members  present,  provided  al- 
ways that  the  President  concurs  in  the  same  ;  and  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Professors  and  Tutors  to  give  their  opinion 
and  advice  in  any  matter  whenever  requested  by  him. 

III.  The  President,  Professors  and  Tutors,  severally  have 
power  to  direct  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  immediate  gov- 
ernment of  the  College — to  control  the  students  and  to  exer- 
cise discipline  in  all  cases,  except  those  which  are  referred  by 
law  to  the  Faculty,  provided  that  no  Professor  or  Tutor  may 
in  any  case  proceed  contrary  to  the  advice  of  the  President. 

IV.  The  Faculty  shall  appoint  all  classical  exercises  and 
examinations,  and  designate  the  authors  which  shall  be  read 
and  recited  by  the  respective  classes — arranging  the  order  of 
studies  as  from  time  to  time  they  shall  judge  fit.  And  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  President  to  exhibit  to  the  Corporation  at 
the  Commencement,  or  whenever  required  by  them,  a  view  of 
the  course  of  instruction  and  of  the  internal  condition  of  the 
College.  The  Professors  also  shall  make  a  written  report  of 
their  respective  departments. 

V.  As  the  responsibility  of  carrying  on  the  entire  system 
of  instruction  and  government  of  the  College  devolves  on  the 
Faculty  as  a  body,  each  member  is  bound  to  perform  miscel- 
laneous duties  which  do  not  strictly  belong  to  any  department 
of  instruction,  and  which  by  vote  of  the  Faculty  are  assigned 
to  him.  And  whenever  by  sickness,  death  or  otherwise,  one 
or  more  of  the  officers  of  instruction  is  absent,  the  rest  are  ex- 
pected to  divide  his  duties  among  them,  regard  being  had  to 
what  may  be  considered,  as  on  the  whole,  an  equitable  distri- 
bution of  labor.  If  in  any  case  the  Faculty  should  find  them- 
selves unable  to  make  such  arrangement,  or  where  more  teach- 


ers  are  needed,  application  may  be  made  to  the  Prudential 
Committee  or  to  the  Corporation* 

VI.  At  the  beginning  of  the  first  term  in  each  Collegiate 
year,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Faculty  to  appoint  one  of  their 
number  Secretary,  who  shall  keep  a  fair  record  of  all  their 
votes  and  decisions  to  be  presented  to  the  Corporation  for 
their  inspection  when  called  for. 

VII.  The  Faculty  are  authorized  to  license  special  teach- 
ers, of  elocution,  of  languages  not  contained  in  the  College 
course,  of  exercises  conducive  to  health,  &c,  and  the  students 
are  not  permitted  to  attend  on  teachers  not  thus  licensed. 
Also  to  regulate  the  dress  of  the  undergraduates,  so  far  as  is 
needed  to  prevent  their  appearing  in  improper  apparel.  The 
Faculty  will  also  appoint  from  time  to  time  one  of  their  num- 
ber to  act  as  the  particular  officer  of  each  class,  and  to  serve 
as  the  ordinary  medium  of  communication  between  the  student 
and  the  Faculty. 

VIII.  In  all  cases  when  an  emergency  may  arise  in  the 
administration  of  the  affairs  of  College,  the  President  shall 
have  power  to  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  Corporation,  if  he 
shall  think  it  expedient,  though  when  circumstances  will  allow 
he  will  be  expected  to  consult  with  the  Prudential  Committee, 
in  reference  to  the  calling  of  such  a  meeting. 

IX.  In  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  the  President, 
it  devolves  on  the  Prudential  Committee  as  soon  as  convenient, 
to  call  a  meeting  of  the  Corporation ;  meanwhile  the  govern- 
ment of  the  College  is  committed  to  the  Professors  and  Tutors, 
who  will  exercise  the  powers  entrusted  to  the  entire  Faculty. 


CHAPTER  III. 

ADMISSION. 

I.  Before  any  person  can  be  admitted  into  this  College,  he 
must  produce  satisfactory  evidence  to  the  Faculty,  that  he 
sustains  a  fair  moral  character. 


II.  No  person  can  be  admitted  into  the  Freshman  class 
until  he  has  completed  his  fourteenth  year,  nor  to  an  advanced 
standing,  without  proportional  increase  of  age. 

III.  Every  candidate  for  admission  will  be  examined  by 
the  President  and  a  Professor,  or  Tutor,  or  under  the  direction 
of  the  President,  by  one  or  more  of  the  Faculty. 

IV.  The  present  requisites  for  admission  are  a  knowledge 
of  common  Arithmetic,  of  Algebra  through  simple  equations, 
of  Geography,  ancient  and  modern,  and  of  English,  Latin  and 
Greek  Grammar,  including  Latin  Prosody ;  and  an  ability  to 
translate  English  into  Latin,  and  to  sustain  a  satisfactory  ex- 
amination in  Virgil,  Cicero's  Select  Orations,  Sallust  or  Cae- 
sar's Commentaries,  Xenophon's  Anabasis,  and  two  books  of 
the  Iliad. 

V.  No  one,  (even  from  another  college),  can  be  admitted 
to  an  advanced  standing,  until  he  shall  frave  undergone  a  sat- 
isfactory examination  in  all  the  studies  completed  by  the  class 
which  he  proposes  to  enter ;  and  no  one  can  be  admitted  to 
such  standing  after  the  middle  of  the  second  term  of  the  Se- 
nior year. 

VI.  No  student  can  be  permitted  to  attend  the  College 
exercises,  until  he  shall  have  been  regularly  examined  and  ap- 
proved. 

VII.  Every  student  on  his  admission  into  College,  will  re- 
ceive a  printed  copy  of  the  Laws,  which,  when  signed  by  the 
President,  shall  be  the  evidence  of  his  Matriculation.  At  the 
end  of  the  first  term,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  obtain  the  Presi- 
dent's signature,  provided  his  scholarship  is  satisfactory  and 
his  conduct  shall  have  been  in  all  respects  conformed  to  the 
Laws  of  College.  But  when  this  proviso  has  not  been  real- 
ized, the  student's  probation  may  be  protracted,  or  he  may  be 
sent  from  College,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Faculty. 

VIII.  Every  student,  when  he  is  admitted,  shall  sign  an 
engagement  in  the  following  form :  "  I  do  hereby  promise  and 
engage,  that  I  will  observe  and  conform  to  all  the  laws  and 
regulations  made  by  the  government  of  Amherst  College  for 
the  students." 


CHAPTER  IV. 

TERM    BILLS. 

I.  Every  student  upon  his  admission  will  be  required  to 
pay  the  bill  of  his  first  term  in  advance,  and  give  a  satisfac- 
tory bond  to  the  Treasurer  in  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars, 
for  the  payment  of  future  bills. 

II.  Candidates  for  an  advanced  standing,  when  admitted, 
pay  to  the  College  Treasurer  half  the  amount  of  tuition  which 
shall  have  been  charged  to  others  of  the  class  up  to  that  .time, 
provided  that  any  student  who  comes  with  an  honorable  dis- 
mission from  another  College,  may  be  admitted  to  the  stand- 
ing for  which  he  shall  be  found  qualified,  without  any  charge 
for  the  time  he  was  member  of  such  College.  The  payment 
for  advanced  standing  may  also  be  remitted  to  indigent  stu- 
dents at  the  discretion  of  the  Prudential  Committee. 

III.  Before  any  student,  after  a  dismission  from  College, 
can  be  readmitted,  he  must  pay  to  the  Treasurer  a  sum  equal 
to  the  tuition  which  he  would  have  paid  for  the  standing  to 
which  he  is  admitted  had  he  not  been  dismissed. 

IV.  All  bills  are  payable  at  the  office  of  the  Treasurer. 

V.  Near  the  end  of  each  term  a  bill  shall  be  made  out  in 
form  against  every  student,  which  he  is  required  to  pay  on 
the  first  Monday  of  the  succeeding  term.  Interest  will  be 
charged  on  all  bills  nbt  paid  when  due,  and  the  Treasurer 
will  give  notice  of  non-payment  by  any  student,  to  his  parent, 
guardian  or  friend.  Absence  from  College  for  a  term  or  a 
part  of  a  term  will  not  excuse  a  student  from  paying  the  full 
amount  of  tuition. 

VI.  Each  student,  at  the  end  of  his  Senior  year,  shall  pay 
into  the  Treasury  three  dollars  for  the  Commencement  dinner, 
and  to  defray  the  expense  of  printing  the  Triennial  Cata- 
logues. 

VII.  Every  candidate  for  the  first  or  second  degree  in  this 
College,  will  pay  one  dollar  into  the  Treasury  for  his  diploma 
and  four  dollars  as  a  perquisite  to  the  President. 


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VIII.  No  student  of  the  graduating  class  is  exempt  from 
the  College  laws  till  he  has  received  his  Degree  or  has  been 
dismissed  from  College,  and  no  student  shall  be  entitled  to  a 
Degree,  till  he  has  presented  a  certificate  from  the  Treasurer 
that  all  his  bills  have  been  paid,  and  from  the  Librarian,  that 
all  books  taken  by  him  from  the  Library  have  been  returned. 

IX.  The  appointees  in  the  Senior  and  Junior  classes  will 
have  liberty  to  decide  by  vote  whether  they  will  have  instru- 
mental music  at  their  exhibition  and  of  what  kind.  But  their 
decision,  in  order  to  be  binding  upon  each  appointee,  must  be 
confirmed  by  the  government  of  the  College.  At  Commence- 
ment the  same  power  and  the  same  limitations  are  given  to 
the  Senior  class,  all  of  whom  are  required  to  pay  equally  for 
the  music,  of  which  the  Faculty  have  voted  an  approval,  and 
in  neither  case  for  any  other  music. 


CHAPTER  V. 

DEVOTIONAL  EXERCISES,  AND  OBSERVANCE  OF  THE    LORD'S  DAY. 

I.  As  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Faculty  diligently  to  watch  over 
the  morals  of  the  students,  recommending  to  them  both  by 
precept  and  example  a  virtuous  and  blameless  life,  and  a  de- 
vout attention  to  the  duties  of  religion;  the  President,  or  one 
of  the  Professors  or  Tutors  shall  every  morning  and  evening 
conduct  the  devotional  exercises  in  the  Chapel,  by  reading  a 
portion  of  Scripture  and  by  prayer. 

II.  The  students  shall  constantly,  seasonably  and  with 
reverence,  attend  these  daily  religious  exercises,  preserving 
silence  and  good  order  from  the  time  they  enter  the  place 
of  worship,  and  quietness  and  decorum  in  coming  to  and  go- 
ing from  it ;  they  shall  also  attend  public  worship,  in  a  similar 
manner  at  the  assigned  place,  on  the  Lord's  day,  on  the  days 
of  the  annual  public  Fast  and  Thanksgiving,  and  at  such  other 
times  as  the  Faculty  may  direct. 


III.  It  is  enjoined  on  all  the  students  to  observe  the  Lord's 
day  as  holy  and  sacred  to  the  duties  of  religion ;  and  if  any 
student  profane  the  Sabbath  by  unnecessary  business,  or  by 
diversion  in  his  room,  or  by  absence  from  it  on  the  Lord's 
day, —  or  shall  on  Saturday  or  Sabbath  evening  make  any 
noise  or  disturbance,  or  shall  behave  improperly  in  time  of 
public  worship,  or  at  morning  and  evening  prayers,  he  may  be 
punished  by  admonition,  or  otherwise,  as  the  nature  of  the 
offence"  shall  require. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

CLASSES COURSE   OF    STUDY  AND    INSTRUCTION EXAMINATIONS 

AND     EXHIBITIONS. 

I.  The  undergraduates  shall  be  divided  into  four  distinct 
classes.  The  first  year  they  shall  be  called  Freshmen  ;  the 
second  Sophomores  ;  the  third  Juniors  ;  and  the  fourth  Se- 
niors. In  reference  to  this  classification,  it  is  expected,  that 
all  the  students  will  give  and  receive  through  their  whole 
course  those  tokens  of  respect  and  precedence  which  from 
common  and  approved  usage  belong  to  their  standing  in  Col- 
lege. 

II.  The  instruction  of  the  four  years'  course  will  embrace 
Latin  ;  Greek ;  the  Modern  Languages  ;  History  and  Geog- 
raphy ;  Grammar ;  Logic ;  Rhetoric  and  Oratory  ;  Mathe- 
matics, Natural  Philosophy,  and  Astronomy  ;  Chemistry  and 
Natural  History  ;  Anatomy  and  Physiology ;  Intellectual, 
Moral  and  Political  Philosophy  ;  Political  Economy  and  Con- 
stitutional Law  ;  Natural  Religion  and  Moral  and  Christian 
Science.  Provision  is  made  also  for  the  instruction  of  such 
students  in  Hebrew  and  other  Oriental  Languages,  as  may  de- 
sire it.  The  course  of  study  and  the  Text  Books  will  be  speci- 
fied in  the  annual  Catalogues. 

III.  The  classes  shall  attend  recitation  three  times  a  day, 

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except  that  there  shall  be  no  recitation  on  Saturday  after- 
noons, and  none  after  the  public  declamation  on  Wednesday 
afternoons ;  the  Senior  class  however  will  attend  two  or  more 
recitations  a  day  or  an  equivalent  in  lectures,  at  the  discre- 
tion of  the  Faculty. 

IV.  The  members  of  all  the  classes  shall  declaim  in  rota- 
tion, every  Wednesday  afternoon,  until  the  end  of  the  second 
term,  after  which,  the  Senior  class  will  be  excused  from  this 
exercise,  and  no  manifestations  of  approbation  or  disapproba- 
tion shall  be  allowed,  except  such  as  may  be  sanctioned  by 
the  presiding  officer. 

V.  The  President  shall  have  a  special  care  of  the  Senior 
class,  and  shall  hear  a  part  of  their  recitations  in  such  branch- 
es as  his  psofessorship  embraces — giving  occasional  instruction 
to  other  classes  also,  if  he  shall  deem  it  expedient. 

VI.  The  Professors  and  Tutors  shall  severally  take  such 
part  in  the  instruction  of  the  classes  as  the  Faculty  shall  de- 
termine, and  as  they  may  think  most  conducive  to  the  interest 
of  the  College.  The  Professor  or  senior  instructor,  where 
there  is  more  than  one,  shall  be  deemed  the  head  of  the  de- 
partment and  generally  responsible  for  the  same,  and  shall 
make  a  semi-annual  written  report  of  the  state  of  his  depart- 
ment, to  the  Faculty. 

VII.  The  hours  especially  appropriated  to  study  are  from 
the  ringing  of  the  study  bell  in  the  morning  to  twelve  o'clock 
M.  ;  from  the  ringing  of  the  study-bell  in  the  P.  M.  to  eve- 
ning prayers,  and  after  the  study-bell  in  the  evening  till  nine 
o'clock.  During  these  hours  the  students  are  required  to  re- 
main in  their  rooms,  and  not  to  leave  them,  except  for  the 
performance  of  some  duty,  or  for  some  urgent  reason,  and 
to  abstain  not  only  from  all  disorderly  noises,  but  from  all 
noises  which  may  cause  interruption  to  others,  such  as  loud 
conversation,  singing,  playing  on  a  musical  instrument  and 
the  like. 

VIII.  Every  student  is  required  punctually  to  attend  all 
the  stated  recitations  and  other  exercises,  which  may  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Faculty  ;  but  the  classes  will  not  go  to  their 


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recitation  rooms  till  the  ringing  of  the  bell,  and  they  will  leave 
as  soon  as  the  recitation  is  ended  ; — provided,  that  any  class 
may  remain  to  transact  necessary  business,  though  in  no  case 
without  leave  obtained  of  the  instructor. 

IX.  There  shall  be  examinations  of  all  the  classes  in  their 
respective  studies,  at  such  times  as  the  Faculty  may  prescribe, 
but  the  final  examination  of  the  Senior  class,  shall  be  six 
weeks  previous  to  Commencement,  and  extend  to  the  whole 
course  of  study.  No  student  absent  from  the  appointed  ex- 
aminations shall  recite  with  his  class  until  he  has  been  exam- 
ined, without  special  leave  of  the  Faculty. 

X.  At  the  close  of  these  examinations,  the  Faculty  assist- 
ed by  such  of  the  Trustees  as  may  have  attended,  and  by 
such  distinguished  clergymen  and  laymen  as  the  Trustees  and 
Faculty  may  from  time  to  time  designate,  shall  make  up  their 
judgment  of  the  literary  merits  of  the  students,  and  may  if 
they  think  proper,  notice  with  approbation  any  excellency, 
and  with  censure  any  deficiency  which  may  have  been  ob- 
served, and  their  results  may  be  communicated  to  the  several 
classes  in  such  a  manner  as  the  Faculty  shall  direct. 

XI.  At  the  close  of  the  last  Senior  examination,  those 
who  are  approved  will  become  candidates  for  the  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Arts  at  the  next  Commencement.  They  shall 
then  have  leave  of  absence  until  the  Thursday  preceding 
Commencement,  provided,  however,  that  those  who  are  t© 
take  a  part  in  the  Commencement  exercises,  must  remain  un- 
til their  performances  are  approved  by  the  Professor  of  Rhet- 
oric, or  he  is  prepared  to  be  responsible  for  them.  Copies  of 
these  performances,  fairly  written,  must  be  presented  to  him 
two  weeks,  at  least,  and  lodged  with  the  President,  one  week 
at  least,  before  Commencement.  If  any  one  shall  make  ad- 
ditions to  what  is  contained  ija  the  copy  approved  by  the  Pro- 
fessor of  Rhetoric,  or  shall  speak  any  thing  in  public  which 
he  has  been  directed  to  omit,  he  shall  forfeit  his  degree. 
After  Commencement,  the  pieces  shall  be  handed  over  to  the 
Librarian  and  shall  be  bound  in  volumes  and  kept  in  the  Li- 
brary. 


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XII.  The  Faculty  will  select  from  the  Senior  class  annu- 
ally a  sufficient  number  to  take  part  in  the  exercises  of  the 
ensuing  Commencement ;  and  will  announce  their  appoint- 
ments in  season  for  the  necessary  preparations.  In  making 
such  selections,  as  in  awarding  all  other  literary  distinctions, 
the  general  rule  shall  be  to  follow  the  scale  of  merit  kept  by 
the  Faculty,  and  which  embraces  the  moral  conduct,  punctu- 
ality, orderly  behavior  of  the  students  in  the  recitation  room, 
and  general  demeanor,  as  well  as  their  attainments  in  litera- 
ture and  science.  The  public  exercises  at  Commencement 
shall  consist  of  Orations  in  the  English  and  learned  Lan- 
guages, and  sueh  other  performances  as  the  Faculty  may  de- 
termine. If  any  student  shall  refuse  to  fulfil  his  appointment, 
he  shall  be  reported  to  the  Trustees,  who  shall  give  him  op- 
portunity to  state  his  reasons  for  such  refusal,  and  if  these 
reasons  are  not  satisfactory,  he  shall  be  deprived  of  his  de- 
gree. 

XIIL  In  the  last  week  of  the  spring  term  the  Faculty  may 
at  their  discretion,  appoint  one  or  more  of  the  candidates  for 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  to  take  part  in  the  exercises  at 
the  ensuing  Commencement. 

XIV.  There  shall  be  a  public  exercise  on  the  Tuesday 
evening  preceeding  Commencement,  consisting  of  declama- 
tions by  members  of  the  Sophomore  and  Freshman  classes, 
not  exceeding  five  from  each  class,  appointed  by  the  Faculty, 
or  in  such  a  manner  as  they  shall  determine,  at  least  four 
weeks  previous  to  the  Commencement. 

XV.  There  shall  be  annually  two  Exhibitions  for  the  Ju- 
nior and  Senior  classes,  at  such  times  as  the  Faculty  shall 
designate,  and  all  the  students  of  these  classes  shall  have  an 
opportunity  of  appearing  in  public  at  one  or  other  of  these 
exhibitions,  by  appointment  of  the  Faculty. 


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CHAPTER  VII. 

VACATIONS    AND    ABSENCE    FROM    COLLEGE. 

I.  Commencement  is  on  the  second  Thursday  of  August, 
annually.  The  first  vacation  is  from  Commencement,  four 
weeks,  the  second  is  six  weeks  from  Thanksgiving,  the  third, 
three  weeks  from  the  third  Wednesday  in  April. 

II.  On  the  day  that  each  vacation  expires,  all  the  under- 
graduates must  return  to  College,  and  the  course  of  instruc- 
tion and  study  will  be  resumed  immediately. 

III.  No  student  shall  be  absent  from  College  in  term  time, 
without  leave  of  the  President  or  some  other  member  of  the 
Faculty. 

IV.  Any  student  absenting  himself  without  leave,  shall  be 
fined  one  dollar  for  each  day's  absence,  and  the  like  sum  for 
going  out  of  the  town  of  Amherst  without  leave.  And  if  any 
student  after  having  been  refused  leave  of  absence  shall  ab- 
sent himself,  he  shall  be  fined  or  otherwise  punished,  at  the 
discretion  of  the  Faculty.  When  numbers  or  classes  unite  in 
such  conduct,  it  becomes  a  case  under  Chapter  X. — 20. 

V.  No  student  shall  prolong  his  absence  beyond  the  time 
for  which  leave  is  given,  nor  beyond  the  close  of  vacation  ; 
nor  shall  he  be  excused  for  any  violation  of  this  rule  unless  it 
shall  appear  to  the  Faculty,  from  the  certificate  of  his  parent, 
guardian,  or  physician — or  if  he  be  more  than  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  from  his  own  certificate,  which  he  is  required  to 
present  in  writing — that  he  had  a  reasonable  excuse. 

VI.  If  any  class  or  company  of  students  shall  at  any  time 
desire  leave  of  absence,  for  the  purpose  of  making  any  geo- 
logical or  botanical  excursion,  or  for  any  reason  whatever,  it 
is  expected  that  they  will  present  their  request  to  the  Presi- 
dent in  season  to  have  it  acted  on  by  the  Faculty.  If  how- 
ever, any  Professor  finds  it  important  to  take  his  class  abroad 
for  purposes  of  instruction,  provided  he  attend  them  in  per- 
son, he  shall  have  power  so  to  do,  with  the  concurrence  of 
the  President.     If  however,  such  excursion  will  interfere  with 


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the  exercises  of  any  other  instructor,  such  instructor  shall  pre- 
viously be  consulted  in  reference  to  the  matter. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

OF  THE  LOCATION  AND  BOARD  OF  STUDENTS. 

I.  Every  student  shall  statedly  reside  in  the  room  assigned, 
to  him  by  a  committee  of  the  Faculty  appointed  to  superin- 
tend the  location  of  students,  and  no  student  shall  in  any  case 
remove  to  another  room  without  permission. 

II.  No  student  shall  lodge  out  of  College,  or  the  room  as- 
ssigned  him,  nor  shall  he  suffer  any  one  to  lodge  at  his  room, 
without  leave  from  one  of  the  Faculty  ;  nor  be  absent  from  his 
room  without  urgent  reason  after  10  o'clock  in  the  evening. 

III.  When  the  rooms  in  College  are  not  sufficient  to  re- 
ceive all  the  students,  permission  may  be  given  to  some  to  re- 
side in  families  of  a  good  and  approved  character. 

IV.  No  student  is  allowed  to  board  or  room  at  a  tavern 
where  intoxicating  drinks  are  sold,  unless  the  keeper  be  his 
parent  or  guardian.  And  if  any  student,  after  the  express 
disallowance  of  the  Faculty,  shall  continue  to  board  or  room 
at  any  place,  he  shall  be  suspended  or  removed  from  College, 
at  the  discretion  of  the  Faculty. 

V.  If  any  student  shall  be  absent  from  the  College  beyond 
the  time  allowed  him,  or  shall  be  vexatious  to  his  roommate, 
or  if  there  shall  be  any  other  sufficient  cause,  the  Faculty  may 
at  their  discretion  take  the  room  from  him  and  give  it  to 
another. 

VI.  In  all  cases  of  disorder  at  the  room,  the  occupant  shall 
be  responsible.  Any  officer  of  College  shall  have  authority  to 
enter  by  force,  if  necessary,  any  room  occupied  by  a  student. 

VII.  All  students  living  out  of  College,  and  in  the  town  of 
Amherst,  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  laws  and  rules  as  those 
who  reside  within  its  walls. 


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VIII.  Every  occupant  of  a  room  in  College,  shall,  before 
he  leaves  in  vacation,  deposit  his  key,  labelled  with  his  name, 
and  the  number  of  his  room,  in  the  place  provided  for  the 
purpose  ;  and  no  student  can  be  permitted  to  occupy  his  room 
in  vacation,  unless  he  shall  first  obtain  special  permission  from 
the  Faculty. 


CHAPTEB,  IX. 

DAMAGES    AND     REPAIRS. 

I.  Any  student  who  shall  damage,  destroy  or  purloin  prop- 
erty belonging  to  the  College,  shall  make  good  the  same,  and 
may  also  be  assessed  to  an  equal  amount  to  be  appropriated 
to  general  repairs ;  or  suffer  any  College  punishment,  accor- 
ding to  the  nature  and  circumstances    of  the  offence. 

II.  Every  student  shall  be  responsible  for  any  damage 
which  the  room  he  occupies  may  sustain,  while  he  is  in  town5 
except- what  arises  from  its  customary  wear,  or  is  otherwise 
unavoidable. 

III.  The  students  are  not  allowed  to  throw  out  of  the 
windows  water  or  anything  else  which  may  deface  the  exte- 
rior of  the  College  buildings,  or  injure  the  appearance  of  the 
grounds  around  them,  nor  to  play  ball,  or  engage  in  any  di- 
version, on  the  front  side  of  them,  or  near  them. 

IV.  Every  student  is  required  to  observe  the  regulations 
which  the  Prudential  Committee  may  prescribe  for  the  preser- 
vation of  the  College  buildings  from  injury  or  loss  by  fire. 

V.  When  any  damage  is  done  to  the  College  buildings  or 
appurtenances,  and  the  author  cannot  be  known,  it  shall  be 
assessed  equally  upon  all  students,  and  charged  in  their  term 
bills. 

VI.  No  student  shall  make  repairs,  additions  or  alterations 
in  any  room  in  College,  without  leave  from  the  President,  or 
a  committee  of  the  Faculty, 


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VII.  In  no  case  shall  a  student  bring  into  the  College 
premises,  any  cannon,  musket,  pistol,  or  other  species  of  fire- 
arms, or  any  gunpowder  in  any  mode  of  preparation  ;  and  in 
no  case,  in  term  time,  shall  any  student  be  concerned  in  the 
discharge  of  any  fire-arms  or  fire-works  in  the  town  of  Am- 
herst. 


CHAPTER  X. 

MISDEMEANORS  AND  PUNISHMENT. 

I.  The  Government  of  this  College  earnestly  desire,  that 
the  students  may  be  influenced  to  good  conduct  and  literary 
exertion,  by  higher  motives  than  the  fear  of  punishment,  and 
it  mainly  relies  for  the  success  of  the  Institution,  as  a  plan  of 
liberal  education?  on  moral  and  religious  principle,  a  sense  of 
duty,  and  the  generous  feelings  which  belong  to  young  men 
engaged  in  honorable  pursuits  ;  but  when  such  motives  fail,  the 
Faculty  will  have  recourse  to  friendly  caution  and  warning ; 
solemn  admonition  and  official  notice  of  delinquency  to  pa- 
rents and  guardians,  lowering  the  rank,  refusal  to  grant  priv- 
ileges and  indigencies  allowed  to  meritorious  students ;  and 
where  the  nature  and  circumstances  of  the  case  require  it,  to 
suspension,  removal  or  expulsion.  Fines  also  may  be  im- 
posed by  vote  of  the  Faculty. 

II.  The  Instructors  severally  shall  notice  absences  from 
College  exercises,  and  delinquencies,  and  report  them  to  the 
Faculty  weekly.  And  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Professors,  Tutors 
and  all  other  College  officers,  to  assist  in  enforcing  the  laws 
and  in  maintaining  the  discipline  of  the  Institution,  especially 
to  send  to  their  rooms  all  students  assembled  without  authority 
in  study  hours  or  in  an  illegal  and  disorderly  manner ;  to  no- 
tice on  the  spot  all  violations  of  the  lawT,  when  necessary ; 
and  to  lay  before  the  Faculty  all  case^  of  misdemeanor  requir- 
ing further  censure.     Towards  the  close  of  each  term  a  scale 


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of  merit  will  be  made  out  for  all  the  classes ;  and  in  forming 
this  scale,  the  Faculty  will  have  a  special  regard  to  punctu- 
ality and  general  behavior,  as  well  as  to  literary  and  scientific 
attainments. 

III.  Whenever  any  student  is  found  delinquent,  he  is  lia- 
ble to  be  deprived  of  any  such  indulgence  as  may  be  granted 
to  exemplary  students,  with  respect  to  absence ;  to  have  par- 
ticular portions  of  study  assigned  him  to  be  performed  during 
the  vacation,  or  at  other  times ;  and  to  forfeit  all  claims  to 
literary  distinctions,  and  if  he  persist  in  such  delinquency,  he 
may  be  suspended  or  removed  from  College. 

IV.  Whenever  in  the  judgment  of  the  Faculty  the  longer 
residence  of  any  student  in  College  would  be  unprofitable  or 
injurious,  owing  to  dissipation,  or  habits  of  idleness  or  inat- 
tention to  College  exercises,  or  propensity  to  mischief,  or  a 
disposition  to  encourage  disorder  among  the  students,  or  other 
reason,  he  may  be  privately  sent  away,  or  official  notice  may 
be  given  to  his  parents  or  guardian,  and  if  a  student  thus  cen- 
sured do  not  speedily  reform,  he  shall  be  removed  from  Col- 
lege. 

V.  If  any  student  shall  be  guilty  of  a  crime  for  which  an 
infamous  punishment  may  be  inflicted  by  the  laws  of  the  State, 
he  shall  be  expelled. 

VI.  If  any  student  shall  be  guilty  of  profaning  the  name 
or  word  of  God,  or  be  guilty  of  fighting,  striking,  quarreling, 
turbulent  words  or  behavior,  unchaste  and  indecent  language, 
challenging,  wearing  any  disguise  or  unbecoming  apparel,  of 
fraud,  lying,  defamation,  or  any  similar  crimes,  he  shall  be 
punished  according  to  the  nature  of  the  offence. 

VII.  If  any  student  shall  be  guilty  of  opening  by  pick- 
lock, false  key,  or  any  other  instrument,  or  breaking  open  a 
trunk,  desk,  room  or  any  other  place  secured  by  lock  or  oth- 
erwise, or  shall  break  through  any  window  or  door  of  any 
room  occupied  by  a  fellow  student,  or  shall  be  guilty  of  an 
injury  to  the  person,  property,  or  premises  of  a  fellow  student, 
or  shall  wilfully  injure  any  of  the  College  buildings  or  prop- 
erty, he  shall  make  satisfaction  according  to  the  nature  of  the 

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crifence  or  injury,  and  be  subject  to  such  punishment  as  the 
case  may  require. 

VIII.  If  any  student  shall  refuse  to  admit  an  officer  to  his 
room,  or  to  assist  in  repressing  any  disorder,  he  may  receive 
any  College  punishment,  even  to  expulsion,  as  the  circumstan- 
ces and  aggravation  of  the  crime  may  require. 

IX.  When  any  student  shall  be  required  by  the  Faculty  to 
disclose  his  knowledge  of  any  disorder,  offence,  or  offender 
against  a  law  of  College,  and  shall  refuse  to  make  such  dis-* 
closure,  or  to  answer  any  question,  or  shall  falsely  declare  him- 
self ignorant  of  the  matter,  he  may  be  sent  home,  removed 
or  expelled. 

X.  No  student  shall  be  questioned  for  any  testimony  which 
he  may  have  given  before  the  Faculty  ;  and  in  case  any  one 
shall  question  or  threaten  a  fellow  student,  in  order  to  ascer- 
tain whether  he  has  testified,  or  with  intent  to  bring  odium 
upon  him  for  testifying,  or  shall  in  any  way  insult  or  injure 
him,  the  student  so  offending  may  be  proceeded  against  by 
the  Faculty,  even  to  immediate  removal  or  expulsion. 

XL  No  student  shall  on  any  occasion  make  or  assist  in 
making,  or  be  present  at  any  festival  or  convivial  entertain- 
ment, in  College  or  in  the  town  of  Amherst  (except  on  invita- 
tion to  a  private  family),  without  permission  from  the  Faculty. 
And  any  student,  at  whose  room  any  such  entertainment  may 
be  made,  shall  be  held  responsible  in  the  first  degree. 

XII.  No  intoxicating  liquor  shall  be  used  within  the  Col- 
lege premises  or  in  any  student's  room,  cases  of  sickness  ex- 
cepted, nor  shall  any  student  partake  with  others  of  intoxica- 
ting liquors  in  the  room  of  any  person,  or  in  any  place  in 
town,  and  no  student  shall  frequent  any  place  where  such 
liquors  are  sold  or  provided. 

XIII.  No  student  shall  keep  cards  or  any  implements  used 
in  games  of  chance,  or  play  at  any  such  games.  And  should 
any  persist  in  so  doing  after  admonition,  they  shall  be  sus- 
pended or  removed,  according  to  the  aggravation  of  the  of- 
fence, 


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XIV.  No  student  shall  attend  any  dancing  assembly  or 
dancing  school,  in  term  time;  . 

XV.  Every  student  shall  be  answerable  for  all  vicious, 
scandalous,  and  immoral  conduct  during  the  several' vacations 
in  the  same  manner  as  in  term  time. 

XVI.  The  Faculty  are  authorized  and  expected  to  pro- 
hibit any  student  from  visiting  any  tavern,  store,  house  or 
room,  whenever  in  their  opinion  a  due  regard  to  morals  and 
economy  shall  require  such  an  interference. 

XVII.  If  any  student  shall  associate  with  one  who  is  dis- 
missed or  one  who  has  been  expelled,  he  shall  himself  be  lia- 
ble to  the  same  punishment. 

XVIII.  As  no  meeting  of  a  class  or  classes  can  be  held, 
except  by  special  leave  obtained  from  an  officer  of  College,  if 
at  any  meeting  any  improper  business  shall  be  transacted,  the 
person  or  persons  who  requested  the  meeting,  and  the  chair- 
man, secretary,  or  committee  appointed  and  acting,  shall  be 
responsible  in  the  first  degree. 

XIX.  No  society  for  literary  or  other  purposes  shall  be 
formed  or  continued,  by  the  students,  without  the  permission 
of  the  Faculty,  nor  shall  any  association  for  any  purpose  be 
allowed,  whose  plan,  objects,  course  of  proceeding  and  by- 
laws have  not  been  submitted  to  and  approved  by  the  Fac- 
ulty ;  nor  shall  any  pledge  to  secresy,  or  any  obligation  of  any 
description,  be  admitted  to  interfere  with  the  right  of  the 
Faculty  to  have  at  all  times  a  full  knowledge  of  the  doings  of 
such  associations.  No  meeting  of  a  society  shall  be  held  out 
of  the  College  buildings,  without  special  permission  from  the 
Faculty;  nor  be  continued  beyond  the  hours  designated  by 
them. 

XX.  If  any  combination  or  agreement,  direct  or  indirect, 
to  do  an  unlawful  act,  or  to  forbear  compliance  with  any  in- 
junction from  lawful  authority  in  College,  shall  be  entered 
into,  such  and  so  many  of  the  individuals  thus  combining, 
shall  be  punished,  as  the  Faculty  may  judge  necessary  for  the 
preservation  of  good  order  and  government  in  College. 

XXL    The  students  shall  at  all  times  treat  the  Faculty  and 


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every  member  thereof  with  the  respect  which  becomes  their 
relation  to  them,  and  their  whole  demeanor  in  their  inter- 
course with  each  other,  and  with  all  other  persons,  must  be 
conformable  to  the  rules  of  decency  and  good  breeding ;  and 
if  any  student,  when  punished,  shall  behave  in  an  insulting 
manner,  he  shall  forthwith  receive  a  higher  punishment.  And 
if,  when  any  student  is  punished,  a  fellow-student  shall  insult 
the  Faculty  or  encourage  resistance  to  their  authority,  the 
latter  student  shall  be  liable  to  the  punishment  inflicted  upon 
the  former. 

XXII.  By  Suspension,  a  student  is  separated  from  his 
class  for  a  specified  time  ;  is  required  immediately  to  leave 
the  College  and  return  to  his  parent  or  guardian,  or  to  repair 
for  study  to  such  other  place  as  the  Faculty  may  designate. 
Removal  is  the  separation  of  a  student  from  College  for  an 
indefinite  time  ;  and  no  student  removed  shall  be  readmitted 
to  his  own  or  any  other  class,  without  satisfactory  testimonials 
of  good  conduct,  during  his  separation,  and  his  appearing  on 
examination  to  be  well  qualified  for  readmission. 

XXIII.  Expulsion,  the  highest  Academical  censure,  is  a 
final  separation  from  College. 

XXIV.  Whereas  cases  of  discipline  may  occur,  which  are 
not  expressly  provided  for  by  law,  the  Faculty  have  power  in 
all  such  cases,  according  to  their  best  judgment,  to  inflict  any 
College  censure,  according  to  the  nature  and  circumstances 
of  the  offence. 

XXV.  Confession  of  a  fault  before  proof  will  be  consid- 
ered a  mitigating  circumstance. 


CHAPTER  XL 

MONITORS,    RESIDENT    GRADUATES    AND    BENEFICIARIES. 

I,  Monitors  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Faculty,  from  the 
Senior  class  ;  and  in  making  the  selection,  particular  regard 
will  be  had  to  scholarship  and  moral  character. 


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II.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  monitors  to  note  down  all  who 
are  absent  from  prayers  or  come  late,  or  go  out  during  the 
exercises  ;  and  they  shall  proceed  in  like  manner  with  refer- 
ence to  other  public  exercises  which  the  students  by  law  are 
obliged  to  attend.  They  shall  also  note  upon  their  bills  any 
disturbances,  or  improper  conduct,  which  may  occur  at  morn- 
ing or  evening  prayers  or  at  any  other  time  of  worship,  such 
as  whispering,  lounging,  reading  any  book  or  paper  not  con- 
nected with  the  service,  irreverant  attitudes,  or  any  conduct 
inconsistent  with  the  decency  and  propriety  of  the  occasion. 
If  a  monitor  fail  to  perform  his  duty,  he  shall  lose  his  office 
and  forfeit  the  standing  which  entitles  him  to  it.  The  moni- 
tors shall  deliver  their  bills  to  the  instructors  of  the  several 
classes,  at  such  times  as  the  Faculty  may  direct,  and  shall 
receive  a  compensation  for  their  trouble. 

III.  Masters  and  Bachelors  of  Arts,  who  shall  signify  to 
the  President  their  wish  to  remain  for  a  time  in  College,  will 
receive  the  desired  permission ;  and  will,  as  resident  gradu- 
ates, be  subject  to  the  laws  and  government  of  the  Seminary. 

IV.  The  charges  to  resident  graduates  shall  be,  for  the 
use  of  the  library  and  for  room  rent,  the  same  as  to  under- 
graduates. 

V.  Persons  who  have  been  regularly  graduated  at  any 
other  College  or  University,  may,  upon  proper  application  to 
the  President,  be  admitted  to  the  same  degree  in  this  College 
upon  the  payment  of  the  customary  perquisite. 

VI.  The  income  of  the  Charity  Fund  will  be  devoted  to 
paying  the  ordinary  charges  of  the  term  bills  of  those  who 
may  be  received  as  Beneficiaries. 

VII.  The  qualifications  requisite  to  obtain  this  aid  are, 
membership  in  some  evangelical  or  orthodox  church,  a  pro- 
fessed determination  to  enter  the  Gospel  ministry  if  Provi- 
dence permit,  and  a  good  reputation  for  talents  and  piety. 

VIII.  If  any  Beneficiary  voluntarily  abandon  the  intention 
of  becoming  a  minister,  he  will  be  expected  to  repay  the 
money  he  has  received,  without  interest.  And  if  such  an  in- 
dividual leave  Amherst  College  before  graduation,  under  ceil- 


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sure  or  unnecessarily,  he  must  either  pay  back  what  he  has 
received,  without  interest,  or  give  security  for  its  payment 
previous  to  receiving  a  dismission.  No  one  shall  be  retained 
as  a  Beneficiary,  who  does  not  practice  rigid  economy  in  all 
his  expenditures,  and  set  an  example  of  punctuality,  diligence, 
and  uniform  good  behavior. 

IX.  It  Will  be  the  duty  of  the  President,  from  time  to 
time,  to  give  the  Beneficiaries  such  special  counsel  and  in- 
struction as  he  may  judge  proper  and  useful. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

RULES    AND    REGULATIONS    FOR    THE    LIBRARY. 

I.  The  Library  shall  be  under  the  immediate  direction  of 
the  Library  Committee,  which  shall  consist  of  the  persons  to 
be  chosen  annually  by  the  Corporation. 

II.  This  committee  shall  make  all  purchases  of  books  for 
the  Library — shall  hold  regular  meetings,  at  least  once  every 
term,  and  shall  present  to  the  Corporation  yearly  a  detailed 
report  of  all  expenditures  for  books,  and  of  all  other  things 
done  by  them  in  said  capacity.  They  shall  also  advise  with  the 
Librarian  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office ;  and  shall 
regulate  and  conduct  all  the  concerns  of  the  Library,  not 
otherwise  provided  for  by  the  Corporation.  Provided  that  if 
the  head  of  any  department  is  dissatisfied  with  the  amount  ap- 
propriated by  such  committee,  the  head  of  such  department 
may  apply  to  the  Corporation  for  a  review  of  the  decision  of 
such  committee. 

III.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Librarian  to  take  good 
care  of  all  the  books  and  other  property  belonging  to  the 
Library ;  to  arrange  in  proper  order  all  books,  pamphlets, 
charts,  etc.,  and  make  a  full  and  accurate  catalogue  of  the 
same.  He  shall  carefully  examine  the  whole  Library,  at  least 
once  every  year,  shall  present  to  the  Corporation  a  circum- 


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stantial  report  in  writing  of  the  results  of  such  examination, 
and  shall  report  to  them  at  least  one  day  before  Commence- 
ment the  names  of  such  members  of  the  Senior  class  as  have 
books  from  the  Library.  He  shall  be  held  accountable  for 
the  safe  keeping  and  good  care  of  the  books  committed  to  his 
charge,  and  if  any  books  should  be  lost  or  injured  by  his  neg- 
lect or  by  his  non-observance  of  the  Rules  and  Regulations 
of  the  Library,  they  shall  be  made  good  by  him,  out  of  his 
salary  or  otherwise.  He  shall  moreover  perform  such  other 
duties  appertaining  to  his  office  as  the  Corporation  may  from 
time  to  time  prescribe. 

IV.  The  members  of  the  Corporation  ;  the  President,  Pro- 
fessors, Tutors,  Secretary,  and  Treasurer ;  all  resident  grad- 
uates, all  pastors  of  churches  that  have  subscribed  to  the 
Parish  Fund  ;  all  donors  to  the  Library  to  the  amount  of  one 
hundred  dollars,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  use  of  the  Library 
without  expense.  The  undergraduates  and  members  of  the 
scientific  department  shall  also  be  entitled  to  the  use  of  the 
Library,  and  shall  be  charged  therefor,  the  former  fifty  cents 
per  term ;  the  latter  one  dollar  per  term.  The  use  of  the 
Library  may  be  granted  to  others  not  included  in  this  article, 
on  application,  either  directly  or  through  the  Librarian,  to  the 
Library  Committee. 

V.  The  Library  shall  be  open  in  Term  time,  for  drawing 
books,  from  1  1-4  to  2  o'clock  P.  M.,  on  Mondays,  Tuesdays, 
Thursdays  and  Fridays,  except  on  the  days  of  public  Fast,  or 
the  Fourth  of  July,  the  two  weeks  next  preceding  Commence- 
ment, and  such  other  days  as  for  special  reasons  the  Library 
Committee  shall  order  it  to  be  closed.  In  vacation  the  Libra- 
ry shall  be  open  every  week  on  Wednesday,  forenoon  and 
afternoon. 

VI.  No  book  shall  be  borrowed  from  the  Library  or  re- 
turned to  it  without  the  knowledge  of  the  Librarian  (or  his 
assistant),  who  shall  keep  a  faithful  record  of  all  books  bor- 
rowed from  the  Library,  and  shall  take  particular  notice  of 
the  state  of  each  book,  when  delivered  and  when  returned. 
And  every  book  when  lent  shall,  if  the  Librarian  so  direct, 


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have  a  paper  cover  on  it,  which  shall  be  returned  undefaced 
with  the  book. 

VII.  No  person  except  officers  of  instruction  shall  borrow 
from  the  Library  more  than  three  volumes  at  a  time,  or  retain 
a  book  without  renewal  longer  than  four  weeks. 

VIII.  For  every  book  not  returned  at  the  time  specified, 
the  person  borrowing  it  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  two  cents 
for  every  day,  until  it  shall  be  returned. 

IX.  No  officer  of  instruction  shall  be  allowed  to  borrow 
more  than  fifty  volumes  at  any  one  time. 

X.  All  books  shall  be  returned  to  the  Library  on  or  before 
the  Friday  preceding  the  close  of  the  first  and  second  Terms, 
and  on  or  before  the  second  Thursday  preceding  the  close  of 
the  third  Term  ;  provided,  that  the  officers  of  College  shall  be 
required  to  return  the  books  in  their  possession  only  once  a 
year — viz.,  on  or  before  the  first  Thursday  in  August. 

XI.  If  any  book  borrowed  from  the  Library  be  injured  or 
defaced,  by  writing  in  it,  or  otherwise,  or  be  lost,  the  Libra- 
rian shall  make  immediate  report  of  it  to  the  Library  Com- 
mittee. If  the  borrower  be  a  graduate,  undergraduate,  or 
member  of  the  scientific  department,  the  Library  Committee 
may  oblige  him  to  replace  the  book  lost  or  injured  with  one 
of  equal  value,  or  they  may  report  the  case  to  the  Faculty, 
who  shall  have  power  to  impose  such  other  penalty  as  in 
their  judgment  the  offence  demands  ;  and  if  such  volume  be 
a  part  of  a  set,  the  borrower  may  be  obliged  to  replace  the 
whole  set,  and  until  this  be  done  he  shall  not  be  allowed  to 
borrow  any  other  book. 

XII.  No  book  can  be  renewed  to  any  undergraduate,  res- 
ident graduate,  or  member  of  the  scientific  department,  unless 
it  be  brought  to  the  Library. 

XIII.  No  person  shall  take  books  from  the  shelves  or 
tables  without  permission  of  the  Librarian. 

XIV.  No  person  shall  borrow  any  book  from  the  Library, 
nor  shall  any  person  enter  the  Library,  except  in  extraordi- 
nary cases,  to  be  judged  of  by  the  President,  without  the 
knowledge  or  permission  of  the  Librarian;    and  no  person, 


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except  the  President  and  Librarian)  shall  have  a  key  to  the 
Library. 

XV,  Such  books,  m&ps)  charts)  &e.)  as  have  been  or  may 
be  presented  with  the  intention  Or  request  that  they  shall  not 
be  lent  from  the  Library 5  shall  in  no  case  be  lent  therefrom. 
Books  which  are  valuable  for  their  plates,  or  for  their  rarity 
or  antiquity  3  and  all  others  which  the  Library  Committee  may 
designate  as  works  of  reference*,  shall  not  be  lent,  but  may 
be  consulted  in  the  Library* 

XVL  The  Library  Committee  are  authorized  to  establish 
from  time  to  time  such  additional  regulations  not  incompatible 
with  the  laws  of  College  as  shall  be  found  proper  and  necessary 
for  the  safety  and  the  due  administration  of  its  concerns;  such 
regulations  shall  be  reported  to  the  Corporation  at  their  next 
annual  meeting,  and  with  their  sanction  shall  become  part  and 
parcel  of  the  Rules  and  Regulations  of  the  Library* 


CHAPTER  XIIL 

BEADING    ROOM* 

L  The  iise  of  the  Reading  Room  shall  be  free  to  mem- 
berg  of  College  and  all  other  persons)  who  choose  to  avail 
themselves  of  the  same ,  subject  to  such  restrictions  as  the  Li- 
brary Committee  may  find  occasion  to  impose. 

!L  The  Reading  Room  shall  be  used  under  the  immedi- 
ate supervision  of  the  Librarian^  and  shall  be  open  every  day 
In  thi  Week3  except  on  the  afternoons  of  Tuesday  and  Sat- 
urday, from  9  to  12  A,  M»>  and  from  2  to  4  P*  M,,  in  the 
winter  tetm,  and  from  9  to  1 1  A»  M>,  and  from  2  to  5  P*  M., 
in  the  glimmer  and  fall  terms* 

III.  No  periodical  shall  be  taken  from  the  room,  provided 
only,  that  the  offifcfera  of  College  may  take  periodicals  repre- 
billing  theif  niipeetive  departments  of  instruction)  after  they 
shall  haw  kin  cm  th§  table  at  least  two  weeks,  and  may  bis* 

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have  the  privilege  of  taking  any  periodical,  after  it  has  been 
in  the  room  at  least  four  weeks,  in  both  which  cases  however 
a  record  shall  be  kept  by  the  Librarian,  of  the  periodicals  so 
taken. 

IV.  Persons  availing  themselves  of  the  privileges  of  the 
Reading  Room,  will  in  all  cases  be  held  responsible  for  dam- 
ages done  to  the  premises  or  the  periodicals,  and  will  be  ex- 
pected to  avoid  audible  conversation. 


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